Pete's Eats

This chap has an iPhone too, and writes a strangely familiar tale of gadget consumption to my own sorry tale. I like to think that I’m not quite that bad, but I understand that denial is common in these sorts of obsessions so I’ll just be quiet, point at him and slowly shake my head whilst putting on my very best ‘oh dear, oh dear, oh dear’ face (but I’ll call it ‘guilt displacement therapy’ if you don’t mind).

My biggest observation with the iPhone so far, is that I’m still not quite at ease with it but I feel that I should be. I’m constantly looking at the battery indicator expecting it to confirm my fears that it’s about to croak, but it does neither. Or that there is no ‘Edge’ service when I’m away from a wifi hotspot, but there’s always that little boxed ‘E’ right next to the service provider’s name*. And the delicious UI has yet to freeze or crash despite me expecting it to everytime I ‘finger’ an icon or slide a, well, slider, before something has finished loading. No, the iPhone is a marvel and that’s exactly why it won’t catch me unawares you know – I’m ready for it to go wrong (or bang) every time I pick it up.

He’s wrong though, about the applications. I have an increasing number of cool apps on there, from an Apache server to a Flickr uploader that can actually access the camera and there are still 40+ apps currently available to install. Of course, there’s the little matter of breaking the phone out of jail to enable this sort of thing first…

Nevertheless, I shall do my best to enjoy the honeymoon period while I can (I’m a seasoned Apple v1 early adopter – ’nuff said?), although I suspect my recent quiet period (see last entry) has probably cost me any chance I may have had at renewed alpha-geekness in our ever-increasing community of tech, games & web industry folks here in Brighton these days. (note to self: I wonder if large corporations like Microsoft are where geek-elephants go to die? :S)

If you have an iPhone and run MT4, then you should check out the iPhone admin UI. It’s pretty good actually, although it probably won’t last of course

* Well, with Orange and T-Mobile that is. 3 doesn’t work at all.